The Spirit’s Pilgrimage by Madeleine Slade (Mira Behn)

The Spirit’s Pilgrimage, Madeleine Slade (Mira Behn). Coward-McCann, New York. Foreword by Vincent Sheean. First American edition, 1960. Very good copy in very good dustjacket. Dustjacket has chips at the top front and both ends of the spine. Price clipped on front flap. Very good green cloth cover and clean unmarked pages. Damage on half title page due to erasures. Black & white photos.

Mira Behn was the daughter of an English admiral who became a disciple of Gandhi. Paramahansa Yogananda conversed with her when he visited Gandhi during his return trip to India in 1935-36. In The Spirit’s Pilgrimage she wrote: “At this distance of time I cannot recall many of them [people who had visited Gandhi], but two remain clearly in my mind: Halide Edib Hanum, the celebrated woman writer of Turkey; and Swami Yogananda, founder of Self-Realization Fellowship of America.”

A review of The Spirit’s Pilgrimage appeared in the July-August 1961 issue of Self-Realization Magazine, and excerpts from the book in the September-October 1962 issue.